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The
FUOYE Centre for Entrepreneurial Development and Support Services,
(CEDSS), is primed to be a world-class skills-acquisition centre. This
was the consensus reached at a brainstorming session on how to take
CEDSS from where it is presently to the level it is expected to be not
long from now. Speaking at a special forum conveyed by the Centre with
the theme, Promoting Positive Synergy for ntrepreneurship Programme in
FUOYE, the Vice Chancellor, Professor Isaac U. Asuzu, told the audience
made up of Principal Officers, Deans of Faculties, Heads of Units and
programmes and members of the management committee of CEDSS, that if the
Centre is handled differently and very well too, CEDSS has the
potential to be the best skills-acquisition centre in the nation. “I
know that in some universities.it is only theoretical learning they do,
but here we combine teaching with practical skills acquisition. We have even added farming as part of our skills acquisition in FUOYE.” He mentioned piggery, goatery,

snailery and poultry as options to students.

He
therefore employed all Faculties, Units and Centres to synergize and
harmonize all “our activities so that students can benefit from what we
have to offer. “The think-tank was challenged to come up with useful
ideas and creative ways to move CEDSS forward. Among the speakers was
anAdjunct Professor and member of CEDSS, Prof. Olu Makinde who saluted
the VC for his 'courage to establish and fund a first-class
entrepreneurial centre.' He noted that the programme is ours, “not their
programme; it is our baby that should ignite our creativity.”

Director
of CEDSS, Professor Olu Atere enumerated some of the skill options
available to tudents at the Centre to include screen printing,
electrical installation, fashion designing, catering &
confectionery, welding, photography, soap-making, carpentry and some
support services. “We have gone beyond teaching to skills learning. Our
target is to expand idea base of the Centre and that is why we are here
today” he said.

Acting
Registrar, D. A. Adeyemo said relevant funding expected to move the
Centre to the next level should come from proposal writing. According to
him, “Such funds expectations can even motivate and excite both staff
and students to buy into the programme.” In his contribution, Dean,
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Professor Rasaki O. Bakare
canvassed the need for the Faculties to keyinto the whole essence of
skills development and advised that all be mobilized and made to
understand the principles of the university's skills development
programme. Prof Atere was full of appreciation for the VC and the entire
university management for obliging the Centre their commitment to the
attainment of its goals, promising that “in one year from now the Centre
would be able to stand and count their contributions to the overall
growth and development of Federal University Oye-Ekiti.”

VC LAID THE FOUNDATION FOR A 500-CAPACITY LECTURE THEATRE

The
Vice Chancellor, Federal University Oye-Ekiti, Prof. Isaac U. Asuzu,
has laid the foundation for a 500-capacity lecture theatre sponsored by
the Implementation Committee of Federal Ministry of Education. The
exercise took place on Monday March 23, 2015.

Speaking
at the event, the Vice Chancellor tasked contractor handling the
project on quality work, charging him to keep tocontract completion-time
schedule. “If you do it according to schedule, you will not have
problems with us,” he cautioned, stating reassuringly his belief that
for the contractor to have successfully scaled through the bidding
process, he would deliver qualitatively and timeously, too. He therefore
proceeded to perform the foundation-laying ceremony to the glory of
God.

In
the creative and innovative spirit of FUOYE, acting Registrar D. A.
Adeyemo, acting Bursar Obadiah Dyiltu, Dean Faculty of Humanities &
Social Science, Prof Rasaki O. Bakare and Dean Faculty of Science, Prof
Sylvia Uzochukwu, were also called upon to support the VC in the
exercise by adding a block each to the foundation. Other officers of the
university present were DOP Ikechukwu Areh, acting Director, PPU, Engr.
Sade Adebayo, Head Legal Unit, Bar. Amaechi Eni as well as the project
team leader, Ojo Ademola.

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